Louis Armstrong News

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is January 20, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend.

Cure the winter blues with an upcoming show at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. Lineup includes Harry Chapin's Great Stories Live featuring The Chapin Family and Erth's Dinosaur Zoo Live!.

The Tony Administration Committee met to confirm the eligibility status of 11 Broadway productions for the 2024-2025 season. Learn more about the deciisions made for Sunset Blvd.; A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical; Maybe Happy Ending; Tammy Faye; Elf; Swept Away; Death Becomes Her; Cult of Love; Eureka Day; Gypsy; and All In.

The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation (LAEF) celebrated its annual awards honoring jazz education and music advocacy during Jazz Congress, a two-day series of workshops, panels and networking opportunities.

A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical recently celebrated the life of producer Vanessa Williams' late mother, Helen Williams, with a traditional New Orleans-style Second Line parade. Check out photos here!

Find a unique Valentine's Day present, date idea or something fun to do with a friend! These are some of our favorite cabaret shows and concerts on and around 2/14, from storytelling to concerts and everything in between.

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 1/12/2025.

A Louis Armstrong pop-up exhibit is running in tandem with the Broadway production of A Wonderful World. The exhibit, titled The Wonderful World of Jazz, is now on at Wild Geese Gallery on Manhattan's Upper West Side. 

On Friday, January 17, Brennyn Lark will be back on the Curtain Call stage in a one night only cabaret. Tickets for the concert are $60.00 and available online.

NYC Broadway Week will offer 2-for-1 ticket sales to 27 Broadway shows, including 10 new participants. The twice-yearly program, is a great way to get cheap tickets, will run from this winter January 21-February 9, 2025.

The New York Pops continues its 24-25 season with Let's Misbehave: The Songs of Cole Porter on Friday, February 7, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall.

The Off-Broadway production of A Guide for the Homesick by Ken Urban will present a special series of post-show talkbacks during its extended run this January. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 1/5/2025.

NAACP has announced the full list of “56th NAACP Image Awards” nominees, with Wicked and The Piano Lesson nominated for Outstanding Motion Picture and Wicked's Cynthia Erivo nominated for Entertainer of the Year.

Renell Taylor is appearing in A Wonderful World on Broadway. He recently took us backstage to share some of his favorite backstage routines, moments, must-haves and more.

The company of the Broadway musical A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical will lead a special ongoing effort to support those affected by the horrific incident that took place in New Orleans, LA. Learn more.

In this retrospective, BroadwayWorld is bringing you a gallery of curtain call moments from every show we covered. Relive the excitement, applause, and energy of this past year on Broadway! 

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 12/29/2024.

Before we get wrapped up in the theatre season ahead, BroadwayWorld wants to stop and salute the shows that made this year great. Watch a full collection of highlights from the 44 Broadway shows of 2024 in this video!

Check out what's coming up at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater, December 30th - January 12th.